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"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. > good evening, ed. great show tonight. it was epic. thanks for staying with us the next hour. televised debates have existed in this country since 196 o. that was the really, really famous one. it was sweaty, dick nixon sick with a fever against polished john f. kennedy. legend has it that richard nixon heard that jfk was not going to get makeup from cbs for that debate, and so nixon said, well, i won't have any makeup either, then. even though he was running a 102 degree fever and not only was nixon ill that day, it turned out that when jfk turned down the cbs makeup offer, it was because he apparently had his own makeup arrangements already made. and so we got jfk with makeup and no fever, we got richard nixon with no makeup and a fever. what we got on tv in the first televised presidential debate in our nation's history was beauty and the beast. right? of course, jfk went on to win that election that year, whether or not it was because of the debate, i don't know, but thus was born the entire school
"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. > good evening, ed. great show tonight. it was epic. thanks for staying with us the next hour. televised debates have existed in this country since 196 o. that was the really, really famous one. it was sweaty, dick nixon sick with a fever against polished john f. kennedy. legend has it that richard nixon heard that jfk was not going to get makeup from cbs for that debate, and so nixon said, well, i won't have any...
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well, we're going to have to go back to rachel. looks like we lost our contact with the deputy campaign manager, rachel. >> thank you, chris. we got lost in the distance between the spin room and satellite that makes this all possible. we're going to take a quick break and come back. there's one interesting thing we're going to have for you when we come back which is that cbs snap poll of uncommitted voters, which showed a 30-point margin for president obama. striking comparisons between that and the way the previous two debates were viewed by similar samples of voters. i'll have those numbers for you when we come back. this is the continuing coverage of the third and final presidential debate of 2012. >> governor romney has taken a different approach throughout this campaign. both at home and abroad, he has proposed long and reckless policies, he's praised george bush as a good economic stewart and dick cheney as someone who shows great wisdom and judgment. humans -- even when we cross our t's and dot our i's, we still run into pr
well, we're going to have to go back to rachel. looks like we lost our contact with the deputy campaign manager, rachel. >> thank you, chris. we got lost in the distance between the spin room and satellite that makes this all possible. we're going to take a quick break and come back. there's one interesting thing we're going to have for you when we come back which is that cbs snap poll of uncommitted voters, which showed a 30-point margin for president obama. striking comparisons between...
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. >>> "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening my friend. thank you for staying with us this hour. there was this moment in 2008 on election night that year. i know you were watching our coverage here on msnbc, but on election night in 2008 over on the fox news channel, carl rove in the middle of fox's election night coverage was on tv gaming out john mccain's chances of pulling out a win that night. he said during their election coverage, quote, if senator mccain loses ohio he goes from 286 electoral votes, which the republicans carried in '04, down to 266 and that puts him below the 270 needed to win the white house. so he would not only need to sweep the rest of these states which were won by the republicans in '04, he would also need to pick up something as well. at that exact moment as carl was saying on fox news as part of their coverage that john mccain basically had to win ohio or else, while carl rove was saying that live on fox, fox got word that the state of ohio had not, in fact, been won by john mccain. it was won by barack obam
. >>> "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening my friend. thank you for staying with us this hour. there was this moment in 2008 on election night that year. i know you were watching our coverage here on msnbc, but on election night in 2008 over on the fox news channel, carl rove in the middle of fox's election night coverage was on tv gaming out john mccain's chances of pulling out a win that night. he said during their election...
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>> well, the rules are somewhat different, rachel. they're attempting to get to more topics tonight. last week, the design was six top topics. jim lehrer only had time for five because basically the candidates went longer in every section. the idea, tonight, is in this 90-minute debate, there will be nine topics, ten minutes each for the nine topics. but each candidate will begin each topic with a two-minute statement. so let's assume for a moment that each one of them will go over a little bit. the first five minutes of each topic is just each candidate's opening statement. then they're supposed to engage in a discussion. that will leave probably only about five minutes or less for that, so some of these are going to feel like some of the quicker segments we end up doing on our shows on msnbc. martha raddatz is going to try to get to all nine. i don't think there's any chance with the two speakers she'll do that. she'll be lucky if she gets to seven of the topics. i hope the audience keeps a very important thing in mind about this de
>> well, the rules are somewhat different, rachel. they're attempting to get to more topics tonight. last week, the design was six top topics. jim lehrer only had time for five because basically the candidates went longer in every section. the idea, tonight, is in this 90-minute debate, there will be nine topics, ten minutes each for the nine topics. but each candidate will begin each topic with a two-minute statement. so let's assume for a moment that each one of them will go over a...
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the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, ed. have a great weekend my friend. thank you. >> you too. thank you. >> thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. >>> iran is getting its own internet. its own private internet. see the real internet is very dissatisfying to the government of iran. there is all sorts of stuff on the internet the iranian mullahs do not like so they've been busy closing off bits of internet to the iranian public. you can't use google. now you can't use youtube. you can't use specific sites where the government doesn't like what you can read there or what you can see there. they've been doing that forever. kind of playing with the internet. iran's government is apparently getting tired of managing the increasingly complex patchwork of things they want to block the people in their country from seeing online and so instead they have a genius idea. they are suggesting they may just close off access to the real internet all together and instead build themselves their own internal government a
the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, ed. have a great weekend my friend. thank you. >> you too. thank you. >> thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. >>> iran is getting its own internet. its own private internet. see the real internet is very dissatisfying to the government of iran. there is all sorts of stuff on the internet the iranian mullahs do not like so they've been busy closing off bits of...
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well, we're going to have to go back to rachel. looks like we lost our contact with the deputy campaign manager, rachel. >> thank you, chris. we got lost in the distance between the spin room and satellite that makes this all possible. we're going to take a quick break and come back. there's one interesting thing we're going to have for you when we come back which is that cbs snap poll of uncommitted voters, which showed a 30-point margin for president obama. striking comparisons between that and the way the previous two debates were viewed by similar samples of voters. i'll have those numbers for you when we come back. this is the continuing coverage of the third and final presidential debate of 2012. >> governor romney has taken a different approach throughout this campaign. both at home and abroad, he has proposed long and reckless policies, he's praised george bush as a good economic stewart and dick cheney as someone who shows great wisdom and judgment. >>> when it comes to going after osama bin laden, you said any president w
well, we're going to have to go back to rachel. looks like we lost our contact with the deputy campaign manager, rachel. >> thank you, chris. we got lost in the distance between the spin room and satellite that makes this all possible. we're going to take a quick break and come back. there's one interesting thing we're going to have for you when we come back which is that cbs snap poll of uncommitted voters, which showed a 30-point margin for president obama. striking comparisons between...
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"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. e
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"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. we're gearing up for another big one. >> i'm trying to get my beauty sleep.
"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. we're gearing up for another big one. >> i'm trying to get my beauty sleep.
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rachel quit the corporate grind to start her own interior design business. she's got a growing list of clients she keeps in touch with using e-mail marketing from constantcontact.com. constantcontact is easy and affordable. it lets her send out updates and photos that showcase her expertise and inspire her customers for only $15 a month. [ dog barking ] her dream -- to be the area's hottest interior design office. [ children laughing ] right now, she just dreams of an office. get a free trial at constantcontact.com. if we want to improve our schools... ...what should we invest in? maybe new buildings? what about updated equipment? they can help, but recent research shows... ...nothing transforms schools like investing in advanced teacher education. let's build a strong foundation. let's invest in our teachers so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. >>> a few surprising shifts, the country claims it has missiles that can reach the u.s. main land. comes just days after the u.s. reached a deal with seoul that would allow them to possess longer range
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>> not at all, rachel. again, yooirng i would take some issue with that because i think the president was very forceful in challenging governor romney on his $5 trillion tax cut on the wealthy. and the voucher program and why it would be disaster for seniors. why he wants to roll back wall street regulations. so i think on the core issues that really matter to voters, we didn't enter the debate as an opportunity for a zinger every minute. our approach was, a story-telling that's consistent with what we did at the convention and what the president will do tomorrow in denver or in wisconsin, for the next 34 days to make people understand if you're a middle class voter in this country you can't trust mitt romney because he'll take us back to the same policies, in many cases on steroids that has devastated the economy in our middle class and the president has a plan to rebuild this economy from the middle out. i don't think voters lost that. i think they're very clear is top-down trickle-down. president obama i
>> not at all, rachel. again, yooirng i would take some issue with that because i think the president was very forceful in challenging governor romney on his $5 trillion tax cut on the wealthy. and the voucher program and why it would be disaster for seniors. why he wants to roll back wall street regulations. so i think on the core issues that really matter to voters, we didn't enter the debate as an opportunity for a zinger every minute. our approach was, a story-telling that's...
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it should not take "the rachel maddow show" calling you for you to fix this. follow philadelphia county's example. philadelphia had the wherewithal to just change it without us calling or anything. i suggest all the other counties in pennsylvania crib the language from philly. go to their website. cut and paste. it's right there on that site. you will be allowed to vote even if you don't have an i.d. it's not that hard to do if you care. democrats have been patting themselves on the back all over the country these past couple weeks about the fact they have been winning these voter suppression battles in court against the republicans. they have been winning in court, stopping the worst of the republican voter suppression law, and it's true. they are winning in court all over the country, but if these republican-run states are still telling their citizens that they're going to be disenfranchised the effect is the same whether or not you won the court battle. it should not be a tv show that is first to notice or first to blow the whistle that pennsylvania in prac
it should not take "the rachel maddow show" calling you for you to fix this. follow philadelphia county's example. philadelphia had the wherewithal to just change it without us calling or anything. i suggest all the other counties in pennsylvania crib the language from philly. go to their website. cut and paste. it's right there on that site. you will be allowed to vote even if you don't have an i.d. it's not that hard to do if you care. democrats have been patting themselves on the...
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>> not at all, rachel. i would take some issue with that. i think the president was very forceful in challenging mitt romney on why a medicare voucher program could be disastrous. he was forceful on explaining that romney wants to roll back wall street regulations. so i think on those core issues that really matter to voters, again, we didn't enter this debate as an opportunity for a zinger every minute. our approach was a story telling that's consistent with what we did in the convention, what the president will do tomorrow in denver and wisconsin, what we'll do to make sure people understand if you're a middle class voter, you can't trust mitt romney because he will take us back to the same policies, in many cases on steroids, and the president has got a plan to rebuild this economy from the middle out. i don't think voters lost that tonight. they were very clear that governor romney is trickle down. president obama is middle class out. and that's a debate we look forward to continuing over the next few weeks. >> thank you very much for jo
>> not at all, rachel. i would take some issue with that. i think the president was very forceful in challenging mitt romney on why a medicare voucher program could be disastrous. he was forceful on explaining that romney wants to roll back wall street regulations. so i think on those core issues that really matter to voters, again, we didn't enter this debate as an opportunity for a zinger every minute. our approach was a story telling that's consistent with what we did in the...
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el nor and rachel is also here as well. tell me your thoughts on arlen specter. we saw this coming. he was not well for sol time. >> right. but he fought cancer successfully three or four times earlier and wrote a book about how to keep living your life while you're facing a terrible illness. and he would play tennis and some of his colleagues in the senate would shave their heads in sympathy with him. so i think wherever you are you recognize arlen specter as a real fighter. and he does represent an earlier age in the politics. and that's somebody who was a deal maker who crossed the aisle figuratively and literally, and he was a true legislator. he knew how to operate on capitol hill. he certainly wasn't just a showman. so his style of leadership, while maybe the purists on either side would find him compromising, his style of leadership is missed on capitol hill. he could find the center and the deal. >> he had a tremendous effect on the supreme court. he was chairman before losing that to the democrats in, i believe it was 2007. so his legacy lives on in many ways. >> eafs a pro
el nor and rachel is also here as well. tell me your thoughts on arlen specter. we saw this coming. he was not well for sol time. >> right. but he fought cancer successfully three or four times earlier and wrote a book about how to keep living your life while you're facing a terrible illness. and he would play tennis and some of his colleagues in the senate would shave their heads in sympathy with him. so i think wherever you are you recognize arlen specter as a real fighter. and he does...
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msnbc's prime time coverage of tonight's debate hosted by rachel maddow in new york and chris mathews in denver begins at 8:00 eastern after "hard ball." this is "andrea mitchell reports" live in denver only on msnbc. hey. hey eddie. i brought your stuff. you don't have to do this. yes i do. i want you to keep this. it'd be weird. take care. you too. [ sighs ] so how did it go? he's upset. [ male announcer ] spend less time at gas stations with best in class fuel economy. it's our most innovative altima ever. ♪ check out the latest collection of snacks from lean cuisine. creamy spinach artichoke dip, crispy garlic chicken spring rolls. they're this season's must-have accessory. lean cuisine. be culinary chic. >>> i couldn't believe the other day when the president's opponents said that the 47% of the american people who don't pay income tax, just want to hang around and be dependent on the government, you know, we just had to ween them off of that because they didn't want to pay income tax. now, a guy with a tax account in the cayman islands is attacking other people for not wanting
msnbc's prime time coverage of tonight's debate hosted by rachel maddow in new york and chris mathews in denver begins at 8:00 eastern after "hard ball." this is "andrea mitchell reports" live in denver only on msnbc. hey. hey eddie. i brought your stuff. you don't have to do this. yes i do. i want you to keep this. it'd be weird. take care. you too. [ sighs ] so how did it go? he's upset. [ male announcer ] spend less time at gas stations with best in class fuel economy....
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rachel is the managing editor of politogeek.com and use the author of the book "the political bible." we've been excited to talk to you, rich. >> absolutely. thank you. >> absolutely. based on your information about a few oops moments that turned into something bigger. we're going to start in 1884. let's go way back to -- >> before my time. >> maybe a year before me. nemps, it eventually won grover cleveland the there. what happened? >> this was between republican james d. blaine and democratic glover cleveland. new york was a critical battleground state, the showdown state in the election. about a week prior to the election, james t. blaine appeared at a republican rally and a pastor said the republican party was the party of rum, romance and rebellion. this galvanized the democratic party to come out against james t. blaine because blaine did not disassociate himself from those remarks. of course, they associated it with alcoholism. blaine lost that election and lost that state by 1,047 votes. >> gosh. >> had he decided to disassociate himself from those remarks history may have bee
rachel is the managing editor of politogeek.com and use the author of the book "the political bible." we've been excited to talk to you, rich. >> absolutely. thank you. >> absolutely. based on your information about a few oops moments that turned into something bigger. we're going to start in 1884. let's go way back to -- >> before my time. >> maybe a year before me. nemps, it eventually won grover cleveland the there. what happened? >> this was between...
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let's give rachel a big hand first. >> thank you. [applause] >> you are welcome to move to the mike. >> hello. i don't know if this is gone. there we are. i am from a presidential family of slaveholders. i have been doing a lot of research into the families of people my family held in bondage and i become in a group called coming to the table. are you aware of this group? is an online group that seeks to connect the families of enslaved people and families of an slavers. i find it to be a powerful experience. i am wondering if you think this type of research into our own families can promote racial hearing -- healing. >> i hope it promotes conversation. a lot of what i found on both sides of the first lady's family, black-and-white, was a lot of silence. we should talk more about it. i am not naive to think one book even about a historic first lady is going to solve everything. if it sparks some conversation, that would be a good thing. in talking to some of the first lady's distant cousins, some people, even our conversations were i
let's give rachel a big hand first. >> thank you. [applause] >> you are welcome to move to the mike. >> hello. i don't know if this is gone. there we are. i am from a presidential family of slaveholders. i have been doing a lot of research into the families of people my family held in bondage and i become in a group called coming to the table. are you aware of this group? is an online group that seeks to connect the families of enslaved people and families of an slavers. i...
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it's not as if rachel maddow is running fox news. i'm not really sure what this bias is referring to. he was also on that show talking about he didn't have enough time to talk about all the details and the math behind the tax plan. you know, media isn't just television. there's twitter. there's facebook. he could post the plan in a link on facebook. he can post the plan in a link on twitter. there's all forms of media right now. this bias he's speaking of, i just don't see it. >> will, your turn. you're in the spotlight. >> i'm in the spotlight, right where i belong. so i guess your question to me is, is there media bias, which i would say, isn't that kind of obvious? l.z. points to the existence of fox. i also point to the existence of fox. there's a reason fox exists. it's a countermeasure to every other media outlet whether or not you're talking about print or on television. now, i want to just point something out to you. in the clip that we didn't play about chris christie saying that if you're complaining about media that you're
it's not as if rachel maddow is running fox news. i'm not really sure what this bias is referring to. he was also on that show talking about he didn't have enough time to talk about all the details and the math behind the tax plan. you know, media isn't just television. there's twitter. there's facebook. he could post the plan in a link on facebook. he can post the plan in a link on twitter. there's all forms of media right now. this bias he's speaking of, i just don't see it. >> will,...
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rachel maddow said he got rolled over by romney again and again and again which he did. al roker even al roker right -- >> really? sweet al roker? >> bill: tweeted i hope jim lehrer gets the license plate of the truck that drove over him in this debate. wow! >> bill: and on twitter others -- bill maher said hey lar, you're the freakin' ref. he didn't say freakin'. you're the freakin' ref. stop letting the mitt butt bully you. he can't fire you! franklin of the new republic says who was the biggest wimp -- i'm going to paraphrase here. euphemism. who was the biggest win of the night? obama or lehrer? i'm one of the few undecideds. john conservative -- liberals and conservatives last night both dumped all over jim lehrer. jim from commentary magazine commented lehrer may be the worst moderator in the history of moderating debates. worst ever. but he really was. it was a colossal embarrassment. c.j. is calling from oakland california. what do you say, c.j.? >> caller: i think for anybody to call romney a winner, it shows he was already losing. he's still losing, i'm sorry.
rachel maddow said he got rolled over by romney again and again and again which he did. al roker even al roker right -- >> really? sweet al roker? >> bill: tweeted i hope jim lehrer gets the license plate of the truck that drove over him in this debate. wow! >> bill: and on twitter others -- bill maher said hey lar, you're the freakin' ref. he didn't say freakin'. you're the freakin' ref. stop letting the mitt butt bully you. he can't fire you! franklin of the new republic...
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rachel quit the corporate grind to start her own interior design business. she's got a growing list of clients she keeps in touch with using e-mail marketing from constantcontact.com. constantcontact is easy and affordable. it lets her send out updates and photos that showcase her expertise and inspire her customers for only $15 a month. [ dog barking ] her dream -- to be the area's hottest interior design office. [ children laughing ] right now, she just dreams of an office. get a free trial at constantcontact.com. >>> welcome back to unsolicited advice. this is the time when we offer ours. why don't we start with you, governor. who are you offering your advice? >> i'm giving advice to congressional staffers. >> oh! >> your bosses have 11% job approval. that's four points below a toothache at 15%. it is the least active congress in the history of this country. and i know you're on vacation and everything. but, really, partying all night, partying all night in the hotel room of a famous partier and taking pictures and getting arrested because you're taking p
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they are not watching rachel and they are not watching john kennedy. independence and moderates. >> it was written the other day about the way the narrative changes. basically, political porter's take a look at the polls. obama gets out there and says romnesia. if you perceive obama as willing cut -- winning, that is great. if you perceive obama as was in, that is embarrassing. does it color the news they get? >> it does depend. getting the news by watching something on saturday night live, which we use as a great arbiter. a lot of folks who are very passive, and i agree with charlie, you are wonderful people but no one here is normal. we spend how many minutes talking about the possibility of a popular and electoral vote. i would love to pull people around america how they have actually tick -- how much they have actually thought about that. that show, for many people, does give them an image of that. the image that was created was crafted of mitt romney, both on comedy shows and on traditional media, and by the ads, that mitt romney was staff but als
they are not watching rachel and they are not watching john kennedy. independence and moderates. >> it was written the other day about the way the narrative changes. basically, political porter's take a look at the polls. obama gets out there and says romnesia. if you perceive obama as willing cut -- winning, that is great. if you perceive obama as was in, that is embarrassing. does it color the news they get? >> it does depend. getting the news by watching something on saturday...
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thank you. >> rachel, thank you for coming. in the years leading up to the presidential election the focus seemed to be on barack obama's roots and his family and the fact that he wrote his own biography. but, now in your book, "american tapestry," you put the focus on michelle obama. tell us about how you got started doing that and what inspired you. >> i was writing about the first lady and the first family for "the new york times," which was something of an unusual assignment. typically the first family is covered by the white house reporters who chase the president around on air force one and in the briefing room and write about the first lady in the first family when they have time. but there was a sense in 2008 at "the new york times" and other newspapers too that we might want to do things a little bit differently. and this family, this first african-american family living in this house, this white house billed in part by slave labor, with slave labor, would be written about for generations to come and we wanted to be a
thank you. >> rachel, thank you for coming. in the years leading up to the presidential election the focus seemed to be on barack obama's roots and his family and the fact that he wrote his own biography. but, now in your book, "american tapestry," you put the focus on michelle obama. tell us about how you got started doing that and what inspired you. >> i was writing about the first lady and the first family for "the new york times," which was something of an...